Dallas-Fort Worth at a glance
- 70
- Years in Dallas
- 100+
- DFW Projects
- $950M
- Adaptive Reuse Portfolio
- 18
- Adaptive Reuse Conversions
About ANDRES in Dallas-Fort Worth
Dallas is home. Always has been.
Gil Andres started building this city in 1955 — a 20-year-old project engineer at Henry C. Beck Company, putting up towers that still define the skyline. Reunion Tower. Fountain Place. Crescent Court. Momentum Place. When he founded Andres Construction Services in 1991, he didn’t go looking for a new market. He doubled down on the one he’d spent 35 years learning.
His first office was at II Turtle Creek Village. A building he’d built at Beck.
Thirty-five years later, ANDRES is still on Rawlins Street in Dallas. The leadership team Gil built — Wade Andres, Warren Andres, Dinah Hays, and the next generation of employee-owners who followed — has delivered over 100 projects across the DFW metro. The 52-story National downtown. Single-story chapel renovations in Irving. Everything in between.
The PM who delivered The National still builds in Dallas. The superintendent who ran Cathedral Guadalupe is still here. The estimator who priced Mosaic in 2007 prices projects today.
Seventy years of continuous presence in one market produces something no out-of-state firm can replicate: relationships with every inspector, every subcontractor, and every permitting office in the metro. That’s not a slogan. It’s a verifiable fact.
Leading Dallas-Fort Worth
Chief Executive Officer
35 years · co-founded 1991
On the Ground in Dallas-Fort Worth
The National · 52 stories · Downtown Dallas Cathedral Guadalupe · National Shrine restoration Knox Street · $619M mixed-use · Uptown Dallas The Cabana · Where The Beatles played
Featured Projects
DFW leads the nation in office-to-residential conversions. Downtown Dallas has more vacant or underperforming office towers than any comparable metro — and the city’s regulatory framework, including Tax Increment Financing districts and historic preservation incentives, creates a financial path for developers willing to take on adaptive reuse.
ANDRES has been doing this work longer than the trend has had a name. Mosaic in 2007. Dallas Power & Light in 2005. Gables Republic Tower in 2006. Corrigan Tower in 2017. The National. The portfolio predates the current wave by nearly two decades.
When developers and capital partners evaluate who can actually deliver an office-to-residential conversion in Dallas, the question answers itself. Eighteen projects. $950M. The regulatory knowledge and trade partner relationships to back it up.
Dallas permitting, inspection, and code enforcement operate differently from Houston, Austin, and San Antonio. The historic preservation overlay districts have their own requirements. The TIF structures vary by district. And the subcontractor market has its own dynamics — firms that specialize in adaptive reuse demolition, historic masonry, and elevator modernization aren’t the same firms that build ground-up multifamily.
ANDRES has worked with the same trade partners across DFW for decades. Southside Environmental has handled demolition and abatement on ANDRES projects for over 20 years. Structural engineers, mechanical contractors, finish trades — these relationships don’t reset when a new project starts. The team that solved the rebar problem at the Cabana’s pool deck is the same team available for the next adaptive reuse downtown.
You can’t import that. You build it over 35 years. Or you don’t have it.
Before ANDRES existed, Gil Andres spent 35 years building Dallas at Henry C. Beck Company. These aren’t resume lines. They’re on the skyline.
Reunion Tower (1978) — "The ball." 561 feet. One of the most recognizable structures in Texas.
Fountain Place (1986) — 63 stories, 720 feet. I.M. Pei design. Fifth-tallest building in Dallas.
City Place (1988) — 42 stories, 1.4M SF. Originally Southland Corporation (7-Eleven) headquarters. The most expensive office project ever built in Dallas at the time — nearly $300M.
Crescent Court (1986) — 10-acre mixed-use complex. 1.1M SF of office across three towers, plus the Crescent Court Hotel.
Momentum Place / Comerica Building (1717 Main Street) — 60 stories, 1.5M SF. The archways running top to bottom are visible from every angle of the Dallas skyline.
Southwestern Bell Texas Headquarters — $186M, spanning 3 city blocks on Commerce Street. 38 floors of office plus a 14-story data center. Wade Andres served as superintendent. Warren Andres worked on the project alongside their father.
Mary Kay Headquarters — Addison, TX.
When Gil founded ANDRES in 1991, he brought 35 years of Dallas relationships, Dallas subcontractors, and Dallas building knowledge with him. And then his sons kept building.
That throughline — Beck to ANDRES, father to sons, founders to employee-owners — is why ANDRES doesn’t just work in Dallas. ANDRES is Dallas. Seventy years of it.
